It’s My Birthday!!! {SO I have an EXCITING present for you!!!}

So, it’s my 34th birthday today! I am really excited; we call it the day “I can be denied nothing” around our house 🙂

I have a few fun things going on for my birthday, BUT the most exciting, and the most fun thing is a giveaway, and a HUGE surprise (I haven’t told anyone about this one!) Today I am premiering my very first digital pattern, and because it’s my birthday, I am releasing it for free!!!! What???? YES!

So what’s the pattern? It’s called The Sweet Sarah Apron, named after my sweet sister Sarah, she is one of the first people I ever made an apron for, and she has been encouraging me for a long time to turn it into a pattern, so now I have, and I named it after her!

This apron is made from quilter’s cotton, has 2 deep pockets in the skirt,

and is fully adjustable with neck and waist ties.

The elasticized neck helps the bodice fit in a really flattering way over the bust, and makes it so you don’t have to untie the neck to pull it over your head.

Paul has helped me digitize the pattern pieces, and there are 5 pages to print off, and I have written a 21 page instruction manual (it’s only that big because I added a lot of detailed pictures) I am SO excited to be releasing this pattern, and I can’t wait to see what you all do with it! If you do make one I would love to either have you email me a picture so I can feature it here, or just tag #sweetsarahapron on instagram.

The flower is an addition I made that isn’t in the pattern, but I will have a tutorial here for it tomorrow! The buttons are great vintage one’s that I got years ago at an antique store!

SO What is the giveaway then?

Why it’s your VERY own apron (in case you didn’t want to sew one of your own 🙂 which I hope you still will!)

It is in fact THIS very apron that you will receive as your own! (I promise I didn’t get any germs on it!)

BUT because I LOVE birthdays, and I think turning 34 is pretty fun, I didn’t think that just an apron was a BIG enough giveaway; so I have put together a package of things I have loved from the past year!

SO the lucky winner will receive 2 yards of the viking fabric I used to make Isaac’s quilt, 2 yards of blue owl fabric, and 2 yards of mustard owl fabric from Emmie’s PR&P Beaded Owl Dress, 2 yards of a stunning grosgrain ribbon with arrow detail (bought at Dongdaemun in Seoul along with the owl fabric) a hand dyed scarf made by a Korean lady with natural Korean dyes, a hand embroidered Korean Thimble, 2 pieces of traditional Korean pottery (one a bud vase, one a ring bowl for putting by your sink or bed,) a pair of small Gingher snips, (my favorite size for keeping with me when unpicking, trimming threads, or embroidering) AND the apron. I don’t have any sponsors, so all of these gifts were bought by me, to give to one of you, as a thank you for reading!

#4 share this giveaway on twitter, your blog, or FB, and then leave a comment here saying you did!

That’s 4 (well actually 6 if you shared on twitter, FB, and your blog) different entries per person!!! I hope you are as excited about this as I am, I hope you will enter lots, and share this giveaway with your friends, because I am really happy about the new blog design, and the new pattern, so I would LOVE to be able to put my best foot forward with meeting new people and sharing the giveaway will certainly help with that!

EDIT: Please leave a separate comment for each entry in the comments section here on this post only, if you haven’t done so already, I will add the extra entries with your name on at the end, so everyone has the right amount of entries!

The giveaway will be open for one week, so it will close on the 13th, and I will announce the winner on the 14th so be sure to check back and see if you are a winner! (especially if your email isn’t linked to your comments/profile) The winner will be chosen by a random number generator. I am also NOT limiting the giveaway to just US residents, so wherever you are in the world, if I can ship it to you USPS, I will ship it to you!!!

I’m not sure if I “followed” you correctly but I tried. I also subscribed to your updates. Let me know if I need to do anything differently.

By the way, I’m quite excited about this giveaway. I feel like all those fabrics are meant for me. My little boy is obsessed with vikings and my little girl is obsessed with owls. It’s perfect. 🙂 Oh, not to mention that I love that apron and everything else you’re giving away as well.

I follow you on facebook and here (through bloglovin – does that count?). But I mostly wanted to say happy birthday to you and congratulations! The apron looks lovely, but I’m especially happy that the instructions and pattern pieces are separate downloads. I always appreciate that!Ann recently posted…Learn to Sew a Hexie Flower

I have followed your blog, liked you on facebook, and shared on facebook too! I’m with Britt, I would have done the instagram thing (because I would love to win!), but I don’t have an account! Happy Birthday! Sounds like you get spoiled! Uhm, I’m not good at these giveaways, do I need to leave separate coments for each entry or does this work?

Thanks for tha apron pattern, & happy birthday! I came over from xoxo Grandma! I follow your blog on bloglovin. I hope that counts, because emails seem to get lost in the “read someday” pile:)Amy mayen recently posted…Betsey Johnson Dress Refashion For Dolls

Happy Birthday to you!!! Hope you’ve had the most magical day and managed to remember everything you wanted to ask for :p What a fantastic giveaway too- and thank you so much for sharing the pattern! xxxKatie recently posted…EllaBellaMaeDesigns – Squee!

I follow you!
I love everything in this giveaway! I remember and adore the dress you made for your daughter with that owl fabric.
Congrats on your first digitized pattern! That is HUGE.
~MichelleMichelle recently posted…Back to Paint

Catherine I liked your page on facebook and shared it. Dan and I really enjoyed your Christmas card. Thank you for sending us one. I like to look at your blog when you post new things and see how you and the family are doing. I was just showing my husband how talented you are. I hope that some day he will get to meet You, Paul and the kids. I Hope everything is going well. I really like the fabric you used to make the Sweet Sarah Apron!

Soooo glad to follow on FB too. There are DAYS I don’t sit down at the computer – but I see you through the FB feed. So excited to enter the drawing…I’d love to put some of that owl fabric in my next quilt.